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Main Menu. Sign Up. Bladder Prolapse Causes, Symptoms and Treatment If something feels wrong with your vagina, paired with pelvic and lower back discomfort, you may have a prolapsed bladder. What is a Prolapsed Bladder? Here's what a prolapsed bladder can look like:. Login ». As a service to our readers, Harvard Health Publishing provides access to our library of archived content. Please note the date of last review or update on all articles. No content on this site, regardless of date, should ever be used as a substitute for direct medical advice from your doctor or other qualified clinician.
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Home Kidney and bladder. Bladder prolapse. Actions for this page Listen Print. Summary Read the full fact sheet. On this page. Symptoms of bladder prolapse Risk factors for bladder prolapse Diagnosis of bladder prolapse Treatment for bladder prolapse Self-care for bladder prolapse Where to get help.
Symptoms of bladder prolapse The symptoms of bladder prolapse depend on the severity of the prolapse, your level of physical activity and the presence of any other type of prolapse.
They include: urinary stress incontinence — leaking urine when coughing, sneezing, laughing, running or walking, or urge incontinence, which is urgently needing to go and leaking on the way needing to empty your bladder more frequently inability to completely empty your bladder when going to the toilet recurrent urinary tract infections difficulty keeping a tampon in place during menstruation straining to get urine flow started a slow flow of urine that may stop and start a sensation of fullness or pressure inside the vagina a bulge or swelling felt at the vaginal opening discomfort with intercourse leaking urine with intercourse protrusion of the vaginal wall out through the vaginal entrance in severe cases needing to go back to the toilet immediately after finishing passing urine.
Diagnosis of bladder prolapse Bladder prolapse is diagnosed by: medical history — including checking for possible risk factors physical vaginal examination internal examination — to allow assessment of the degree of prolapse, pelvic floor muscle function, presence of any other prolapse and other abnormalities in the pelvis, such as tumours or masses. Tests for bladder prolapse Tests that may be carried out to confirm or reject a diagnosis of bladder prolapse, depending on your symptoms, are: pelvic ultrasound to exclude any masses or cysts putting pressure on the bladder urodynamics — a test of bladder function and to assess different types of incontinence a bladder scan to measure residual urine — urine left in the bladder after emptying a midstream urine test to exclude urinary tract infection magnetic resonance imaging MRI — in some cases.
Stages of bladder prolapse The severity of bladder prolapse can be measured in several ways. Treatment for asymptomatic bladder prolapse If you have no symptoms of bladder prolapse, you may not need treatment. There are things you can do to help prevent the condition from getting worse, which may include: weight loss management of constipation stopping smoking correction of position when sitting on the toilet avoiding heavy lifting pelvic floor exercises, which have been proven to reduce the symptoms of an early stage bladder prolapse and prevent any worsening seeking treatment and management for chronic cough and lung disease.
Treatment for symptomatic bladder prolapse If you have symptoms of bladder prolapse it is recommended that, as for people with no symptoms, you make the same lifestyle changes, do pelvic floor muscle training and treat any chronic cough. For these cases, there can be two different approaches: 1. Non-surgical approach — vaginal pessaries A pessary is a device made mostly of silicone.
Surgical approach In some cases, when all other management options have failed to help with the symptoms, or when a woman does not want to use a pessary, surgery may be necessary. Pelvic organ prolapse in women: Epidemiology, risk factors, clinical manifestations, and management. Accessed Jan. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
Practice Bulletin No. Cystocele prolapsed bladder. Urinary incontinence. Office on Women's Health. DeCherney AH, et al. McGraw-Hill Education; Magowan BA, et al. Elsevier; Warner KJ.
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